Is it panic stations for Arsenal and Spurs?
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The Times
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🗓️ 13 April 2026
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Arsenal are out of form and low on confidence, but they are still six points clear and very likely to be in the Champions League semi finals. Man City are in form and full of confidence - so, who are title favourites now? With the two meeting next week what does Mikel Arteta have to do to lift his team and do Man city have a higher ceiling in terms of performance?
Across North London Roberto De Zerbi couldn't stop Spurs falling into the relegation zone, he thinks his team need a father figure not a coach...will that be enough?
Plus, the best title race in years north of the border and Bruno Fernandes is a really nice guy off the pitch.
Jonathan northcroft and Gregor Robertson join Tom Clarke.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the game football podcast from The Times and Sunday Times. The gap |
| 0:09.2 | at the top of the Premier League table is down to six. Manchester City have a game in hand and |
| 0:14.2 | Pep Guardiola's side host leaders Arsenal next weekend. It's all pretty exciting, isn't it? |
| 0:19.0 | It's even tighter at the bottom of the table as |
| 0:21.1 | West Ham win, Forest Draw and Tottenham lose again. On today's show, we'll discuss some huge |
| 0:26.2 | results this weekend to take a look at the equally intriguing title race in Scotland and hear |
| 0:31.0 | about a revealing interview with Manchester United Captain Bruno Fernandez. I'm Tom Clark, |
| 0:35.6 | and joining me today, we have the football correspondent for the Sunday Times, |
| 0:38.4 | Johnny Northcroft and the former football attorney journalist Gregor Robertson is here with me as |
| 0:42.4 | usual. |
| 0:43.3 | Greg, at Johnny on a Monday. |
| 0:44.8 | What a treat, eh? |
| 0:45.9 | Absolutely. |
| 0:46.5 | Just when you thought this season couldn't get any more chaotic. |
| 0:49.3 | We mess with the whole plan. |
| 0:52.1 | At my age, you're just looking for new experiences. Yeah. Game on a Monday, wow. Exactly. Exactly. Absolutely. And what do you think of the Lincoln kit I've gone for today? Bold, yeah. This is the 21, 22 third shirt. Basically, I'm doing this partly to just keep Lincoln's joy going, but also to wind Gregor up, because I think you can tell. |
| 1:11.7 | You can tell from his facial expression, which you can catch on YouTube, that he thinks this is pretty nath, don't you? |
| 1:17.5 | That's one word for it. |
| 1:18.3 | Yeah, yeah, there you go. |
| 1:19.3 | So we're going to see if I've got enough kits in my collection to make it all the way through to the end of the season, or at least until Martin Samuel rejoins the show, because I think he will also find it pretty enough. |
| 1:28.0 | Oh, what are you doing with that? |
| 1:29.2 | Oh, come on. Without making this all about Lincoln, uh, uh, is that the names of like, yes. So this was, this was like a third kit where I think if you put money in, you had your name on the shirt or something. So there's various names of fans. We're just a community run club, Johnny. |
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